Peter
I strongly do not recommend using the services of the Limpopo company in Mariupol if you want to relax in St. Petersburg. They resell the tour to Kyiv to “Chocolate”, and they are already transferring tourists to the Lena-Tour company in St. Petersburg. The trip is inexpensive, the program is good, but as soon as you leave Kyiv by bus, there are problems... There is no promised mandatory excursion to Pushkin, they do not replace it with an equivalent one. . The leaders of the group say that it is not. . Service on the road is not of the best quality, but you can close your eyes to this... The leader is obliged to periodically offer tea and coffee on the road, not to say that there is no water, it must be bought in advance and in large quantities. . Moreover, these services are listed in the infolist. . At least three times a day. . How and where they settle is a separate conversation... They don’t immediately settle in 1 hotel, half of the group runs the risk of 1 night to live separately from the other half, as was the case in my case. . The next day they overpowered everyone, but the hotel is worse in quality. . The rooms are old, like in Soviet sanatoriums, there is no buffet table, only WI-FI from the Internet, you have to drain hot water for almost an hour in the morning to wash. . The organization of the tour is terrible. . . Some of those who wanted to get to Pavlovsk or Gatchina did not get there even on their own, as we were left almost no free time. . Later, when the leader and I began to calculate what was the matter, it turned out that most likely it was in Limpopo that they had calculated everything badly. . A trip for 2000 hryvnias should actually cost no less than 2500, or even three... We calculated all the percentages that the company pays for services, and in this case - 3 companies, they simply did not pay money for Pushkin ("Limpopo") , because after all the interest, this amount simply wasn’t there, almost everyone found out about it only on the bus... But, despite all the minuses, the city is worth going there... It can compete with Prague, there are many metro lines, even the usual there is enough public transport, the architecture is wonderful, there are many channels... Just buy a tour that costs at least 4.000 hryvnias, if finances allow. .